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infomine.com about Xolobeni
March 30, 2007
Reported that the Xolobeni mineral resource is estimated to be 346 million tonnes of 5.0% valuable heavy mineral. Of the total resource, 65% is in the Measured category (refer to attached Mineral Resource Statement). It is the tenth largest mineral sands resource in the world containing in excess of 9,000,000 tonnes of ilmenite. The mining study concluded that the Xolobeni mineral sands deposit is economically viable with a mine life of some 22 years, producing some 250,000 tonnes per annum (“tpa”) of ilmenite, 19,000 tpa of rutile, 15,000 tpa of zircon and 15,000 tpa of leucoxene.
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Xolobeni Mineral Sands
The Xolobeni mineral sands deposit is located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, 200km south of Durban . The resource is strategically close to an existing major mineral sands project operated by Richards Bay Minerals and Ticor South Africa. Last updated 2007
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Xolobeni mining 'can't be stopped' M&G
Thirteen years ago a strong environmental campaign saved the St Lucia dunes from being mined. This time the Minerals and Energy Department will not be swayed by public opinion, a senior official told the Mail & Guardian this week. August 2008
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Stop mining of the Xolobeni beaches in the Transkei Petition
The Department of Minerals and Energy has announced that it intends awarding a mining licence to Australian mining company MRC on 31 October 2008 to mine the Kwanyana Block of the Amadiba Tribal Administrative Area, on the Pondoland Wild Coast. This announcement has been made before the SA Human Rights Commission has completed its investigation into human rights violations lodged by local residents allegedly perpetrated by agents of MRC. (6289 Total Signatures July 2010)
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Revoke Xolobeni mining right
Stephan Hofstatter’s report on the shenanigans surrounding the Wild Coast mining saga refers (Transkei dead’s nod to dune deal, March 5). So it is at the discretion of the minister whether or not to revoke a mining right, even when there is clear evidence of a fraud having been perpetrated to secure a mining right by the holders thereof.
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Facebook page for "Stop mining of the Xolobeni beaches in the Transkei"
Australian mining company - Mineral Commodities Limited (ASX: MRC), has applied for the rights to mine the Xolobeni heavy mineral sands resource, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, previously Transkei.
Richard Spoor, a South African human rights lawyer, argues that “mining Pondoland Wild Coast is the moral, cultural and aesthetic equivalent of quarrying Ayers Rock for granite, or the Great Barrier Reef for calcium carbonate”.
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wildernessfoundation.co.za
Xolobeni Tourism Cost Benefit Analysis
One of the contracted objectives of the Wild Coast Conservation and Sustainable Development Project was to support a review of any bankable feasibility study/ies undertaken by the mining consortia i.r.o. an application for a mining permit at Wavecrest and Xolobeni. Due to changes in the circumstances regarding the EIA process the mining consortia have since extended the prospecting lease in order to carry out baseline studies in preparation for the EIA process. As such, the opportunity to engage in the bankable feasibility study now falls outside the timeframe of this project.
As an alternative option the Project Steering Committee approved the development of a Cost Benefit Analysis of proposed tourism developments in the Xolobeni area in order to provide an ‘apples v apples’ (financial and socio-economic benefits) comparison with the heavy minerals mining option. The PMU have since employed Grant Thornton to carry out this study.
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Xolobeni Mining go ahead despite MAJOR opposition
An announcement appeared on Monday morning ( 4th Aug) on the Australian Stock Exchange website listing for MRC Ltd (http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/CompanyInfoSearchResults.jsp?searchBy=asxCode&allinfo=&asxCode=mrc. ) reporting that “the Department of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa.. will proceed to grant to its South African Subsidiary Transworld Energy and Mineral Resources (SA) Plty Ltd, the mining right for the Kwanyana Block within the Xolobeni Mineral Sands tenement area”. The announcement goes on to say that “the remaining areas will be held under a Prospecting Right valid to 2010 which can be extended until applications are made to convert the remaining areas to Mining Rights on a block by block requirement.” Interested and Affected Parties wait to be officially informed by DME of their decision.
24 May 2010
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Pondoland Park
30 December 2005
The Pondoland centre of biological diversity and endemism is of international ecological importance, and was recently added to the list of 26 global floristic hotspots.
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